The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-26


several townships hold cauenses not later than
Saturday. June tn. and select the delegates to
nen ndes sn are nse member ot The Co1n
ty Central COMMITTEES. and report the same at
the Convention.
IRVING F. WILCOX. chmn.
G. H. GOODMAN, Sec.
NoTE:,There were s644 votes cast for Hon
John Mcbride in Portage Co. in November last
JARED LAWRENCE RATHBoNE, of
California, has been appointed by the
President Consul General at Paris.
Lewis Webster and Miss Annie Hall
were married at Geneva, Sunday, the
18th inst.
PAPNELL is said TO be suffering with
Bright's disease, with no hopes of re-
covery.
AKRoN Trades Assembly is taking
steps to supply its members with goods
manufactured by cooperative estab-
lishments.
HENRY GEORGES sympathy for the
workingmen ia evidently genuine.
He gets but $lO0 lecture-only $50 or
thereabouts per hour.
THE report issued by the Treasury
Department shows the number of dis
tilleries running in Ohio on April 80
to oe sixteen; daily production, $780,
169 gallons.
Ex Gov. CURTIN, of Pennsylvania,
says the leaders of the next Presiden-
tial campaign will be Cleveland for
the Democrats, and Sherman for the
Republicans. Blaine talk makes him
smile.
AN express train on the Missouri
Pacific railroad was robbed the 18th
inst, at Mcneil, Texas, by Is freebcot
ers. The passengers were also relieved
of quite an amount of money and val
uables.
THE graves of the Confederates at
Norfolk, Va, were decorated by Union
and Confederate veterans, ON Thus.
day last. The procession was review
ed by Gov Lee and staff, dressed in
Confederate uniform.
MRS. ANN BOYD, of Grand Rapids.
Mich, recently obtained verdict of
$9,500 damages against Christ Post,
who sold her husband liquor, under
the influence of which he killed q
man, and is now in the penitentiaty
on life sentence.
THE will of Washington C.DePauw.
the great plate glass manufacturer, of
New Albany, Ind, bequeaths So, ,000,-
600 to his family, and the residue of
his estate. estimated at $4,000. 900. is
devoted to benevolent and educational
purposes, including bequest of ST..
025, 600 to DePauw University.
ABOUT $1,000 worth of Allegheny
County, Pa, bonds, the property OF
Mrs. McWba, that have been missing
since she and her daughter were muir.
dered, at Holidays Cove. w. Va,
have been found under the marble top
of q washstand in a room formerly
occupied by the old lady.
A LYONS, N. Y. dispatch of the
10th inst, says that as woTkmen were
about to pull the casing from an arte.
sian well at North Rose, near that
city, loud explosion occurred, knock
ing the men down and singing their
whiskers. A great gas well had been
tapped, the flame of which can be seen
for miles.
A CHICAGO telegram of the Goth
inst. says that Robert T. Liacoln's
friends in that city claim that Blaine
has opened negotiations to get Lincoln
in second place on the National Re-
publican ticket. He has been invited
to visit Augusta, but declines, declar-
ing he is out of public life. Bad for
the tail of the Blaine kite.
NINE. JANAUsCHEK, met with q go.
Tious accident at Newport, r. l., on
Tuesday night, the 18th inst. After
her performance, while visiting one
of the members of her company at
the Perry House she fell down flight
of fourteen stairs, breaking her right
arm, and badly bruising her whole
body. The accident will necessitate
the abandonment of all her engage
msnts the coming season.
THE monument erected by the Odd
Fellows of the U. 3. to the memory of
the late Vice President Colfax, COM
memorative of his establishment of
the Degree of the Daughters of Re-
bekah, was formally unveiled at Indi-
annapolis, Wednesday afternoon, the
18th inst, with imposing ceremonies
The cost of the monument was over
$4,000, all of which was contributed
by Odd Fellows, in amounts varying
from SO cents to 500.
FIRES are devastating large tracts of
farm lands and forests in Michigan,
sweeping everything in their course,
and jeopardiziDg many hamlets and
villages. A dispatch from Cheboygan
saws farmers in the county are fight
ing forest fires to protect their lives
and homes from destruction. In the
vicinity of Hammond's Bay the roar
ing of the fire is terrible, and every
thing is laid waste in its path.
Canon Falls, Mimi, was almost de-
stroyed by fire the night of the 10th
inst. Twenty five business houses
were destroyed. Estimated loss. on
which insurance is notstated. $260, 600.
On the east fork of the Black river,
in Wisconsin, forest fires are spreading
across the country, burning standing
timber and everything in their path.
At Lake Linden, Cheboygan, and
other points, great distress prevails,
and urgent appeals are sent out for aid.